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With Lopez Obrador in, thousands of workers walk out

February 7, 2019 By David Bacon

The election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador as president of Mexico has raised the hopes and expectations of millions of Mexican workers. There could be no better evidence of this than the strike of tens of...

Union leader Shearon on shutdown: No private sector bosses as bad as Trump

February 6, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

Shearon, whose union represents both public and private sector workers – including thousands of federal immigration judges and tens of thousands of Boeing aerospace workers – produced a pungent comparison between Trump’s lockout and lockouts launched...

Donald Trump’s speech goes low, Stacey Abrams’s response goes high

February 6, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

That, in essence, is the contrast between Trump’s 92-minute speech from the U.S. House rostrum and Abrams’s shorter, positive, reply from an Electrical Workers union hall in Atlanta.

CPUSA chair responds to Trump State of the Union speech

February 6, 2019 By John Bachtell

John Bachtell, the national chair of the Communist Party USA, offered his party’s response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in a live video presentation on Feb. 5, 2019.

CPUSA labor group praises workers for shutting down the shutdown

February 6, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

Communist Party Chair John Bachtell says the mass movement that defeated GOP President Donald Trump’s lockout/shutdown of parts of the federal government – ending the saga of leaving 800,000 workers unpaid for 35 days – was...